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In this paper, a short pyramidal horn antenna with coaxial feed has been designed and fabricated with 52% bandwidth, which covers CDMA and GSM 900 bands. The total length of the antenna including coaxial feed is approximately 0.85λ at the lowest usable frequency. The effect of coaxial probe length, probe radius, and its location from the short wall of the waveguide on the resonance frequency, impedance matching, and bandwidth of the horn antenna have been analysed using CST Microwave studio software. Also, parametric analyses have been done by varying the horn length and aperture dimensions to study radiation characteristics of the horn antenna. The horn length has been optimized to obtain maximum efficiency for a fixed aperture. Simulation results show that as the frequency increases from 700 to 1130 MHz, the gain monotonically increases from 8.4 to 12.6 dBi with maximum efficiency of 80% at 850 MHz and it varies between 72% and 80% over this band. The pyramidal horn antenna has been fabricated and measured results are in good agreement with the simulated results.

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This page is a summary of: Coaxial Feed Pyramidal Horn Antenna with High Efficiency, IETE Journal of Research, May 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/03772063.2017.1323563.
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